Are you looking to take a step onto a highly sought after career path? Are you reliable, keen and committed? Would you like to learn new skills in a pharmacy? Do you have ambition and the drive to succeed? If you can answer yes, then this pharmacy technician apprenticeship opportunity is for you!

We are looking for someone who has experience in a pharmacy or retail, good communication and customer service skills, smartly dressed with excellent command of the English language and organisation skills. This is because you will be talking to a variety of patients who will each have individual needs, so these types of skills are very important to us. To help you thrive in a pharmacy setting, you should be punctual not only arriving to work but also meeting deadlines. A friendly personality, keen to progress within your setting, a caring team member, hardworking and have a willingness to learn are all skills we are looking for.

This is a unique role as you will gain both experience as a trainee pharmacy technician across both Community pharmacy and within a GP surgery across your working week. The surgery will be Grange Medical Centre (one day a week 999 York Road, Seacroft, Leeds, LS14 6NX, please ensure you can travel to both sites)

GCSEs at grades C/4 or above (or equivalent) in 

Maths, English and Science are essential to undertake this programme. Ideally has an NVQ2 as a Pharmacy Assistant.

Working Hours

Mon-Fri 30 hours between hours of 8.30am-6.30pm, some Saturday maybe required on a rota, 6 of 30 hours will be training time (paid inclusive of 30 hours)

What are the duties of the role?

• Support with patient consultations
• Dispensing medicine
• General admin
• Dealing with over the counter and phone enquiries
• Use of the computer and the pharmacy specific software
• Checking off and unpacking orders
• Stock management
• Date checking of stock
• Processing NHS prescriptions
• Completion of apprenticeship work every week for 6 hours (Paid)
• Attendance of virtual training session through Microsoft Teams

What you will gain- Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship

• Mentor/Manager support within the pharmacy
• In-house training
• Register with the GPhC upon completion

Future Prospects- Full-time permanent role for the right person.

Things to consider- All training is delivered by Woodspeen remotely to the workplace via Teams. There is no travelling involved for training